Shanghai: The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Therefore, the method of conscripting men is definitely not feasible.

We have to think of other ways.

But now, after thinking about it, it seems that we can only gradually recruit people from the Northeast and several other places occupied by Longmen.

Otherwise, what else can we do?

"Brother Fei, I have an idea."

At this moment, Xu Wenqiang walked in from outside and spoke.

Seeing Xu Wenqiang, Ye Yunfei said, "Wenqiang, what do you have in mind? Tell me."

Xu Wenqiang has been busy recently dealing with things that have accumulated in the Northeast and the entire Republic of China over the past few months. It can be said that he is very busy.

Ye Yunfei hardly saw him every day, so he didn't add any pressure to Xu Wenqiang by recruiting people.

Today he originally just wanted to ask Tan Xiong to come over to ask about the situation, but he didn't expect Xu Wenqiang to come as well.

Xu Wenqiang said: "We have tried recruiting people in the southeast before."

"All the places occupied by warlords are now barren and almost all the available people have been recruited by the warlords."

"In some places, there is even a frantic conscription of men. In a family, there is not even a single male left. In this situation, it is very difficult to recruit people."

"It's the same in the southeast and the northeast. There's no difference."

Ye Yunfei nodded.

After occupying the southeast, Xu Wenqiang did recruit people in the southeast.

However, most of the people in the southeast had been captured by the warlords who had previously occupied that place.

There are only a few men in each village, so it is basically impossible to recruit people.

There is no difference between the Northeast and the Southeast now.

Ye Yunfei looked at Xu Wenqiang and said, "Wenqiang, you said you had a way to recruit people, I wonder what it is."

Xu Wenqiang said: "My method can not only recruit people, but also recruit quite a lot of people in a very short time, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands."

The more Xu Wenqiang talked, the more interested he became. He said, "Then hurry up and tell me what the solution is."

Xu Wenqiang smiled and said two words: "Recruit."

"Recruit."

Hearing these two words from Xu Wenqiang, Ye Yunfei frowned and said, "What do you mean by recruit? Could it be that you want to recruit those warlords?"

Xu Wenqiang said: "That's right, Brother Fei, there are still dozens of warlords of all sizes in the Republic of China."

"Let's not talk about the big warlords for now. There are already thirty or forty small warlords entrenched in various places."

"Some of these small warlords have thousands of people, and some have tens of thousands of people."

"If we can recruit all these small warlords into Longmen, we can increase the number of people by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands at a time."

"Even if not all the small warlords join, even if only half, or less than half, of the warlords join Longmen, the number of people should be able to reach 800,000."

"So I think recruiting warlords is a good idea."

Xu Wenqiang expressed his thoughts.

After hearing what Xu Wenqiang said, Ye Yunfei frowned and said, "What you said about recruiting warlords is indeed a good idea."

"However, I'm afraid those small warlords may not necessarily be willing to join us."

"Those small warlords, although they are not very powerful, are arrogant and look down on others. Although our Longmen is developing well now, they would rather be the boss than be someone else's younger brother."

“So, I feel that even if we recruit them, they may not be willing to join.”

Xu Wenqiang said: "Brother Fei is right. They are indeed arrogant and domineering. They may not be willing to join Longmen."

"The way to deal with these people is actually very simple, that is to use both suppression and appeasement."

"Give them some money first, and use the money as bait to get them to voluntarily join Longmen."

"Most of the warlords in the Republic of China are now very short of money. As long as you give them money, I believe that most of them will be willing to obey."

"Even if they are just nominally obedient, we can wait until they join Longmen, annex their people, and then get rid of their boss."

"The rest of the people, after careful training, can be transformed into our Longmen disciples."

"As for the other method, we are directly threatening them with force and telling them that they now have only two choices: the first is to join Longmen, and the second is to be destroyed."

"Let them choose for themselves whether they want to join Longmen or be destroyed."

"Those who want to join, let them join. Just like before, after they join, we will train them and make them our people. As for those who disobey, we will kill them all."

"Using these two methods at the same time, I think we should be able to recruit some people."

"At least, it's much better than going to various places to recruit people one by one."

After Xu Wenqiang finished speaking, he looked at Ye Yunfei.

After listening to Xu Wenqiang's words, Ye Yunfei kept nodding.

Xu Wenqiang was right. These two methods would definitely make some small warlords choose to join Longmen.

After they join, we will train them well and make them our own people.

In this way, you can get a lot of people at once.

This is indeed much better than recruiting people from all over the place.

Thinking of this, Ye Yunfei said: "Wen Qiang, the two methods you mentioned are both good."

"Okay, let's do as you say. Go recruit those small warlords and see if they are willing to join us."

"I think that under your two methods of suppression and appeasement, at least some of the small warlords will choose to join our Longmen."

"However, I would like to expand on your method, which may be more effective."

Xu Wenqiang looked at Ye Yunfei curiously and asked, "How do you expand it?"

Ye Yunfei said: "You said that we should only recruit those small warlords. This is indeed a good choice. However, since small warlords can be recruited, the big warlords can also be recruited."

"Moreover, the warlords in the Republic of China now have hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of people. As long as we can recruit one of them to surrender, our numbers will be enough."

"So, I plan to recruit a big warlord to join us."

Big warlord.

Hearing Ye Yunfei's words, Xu Wenqiang was stunned for a moment before he said, "Brother Fei, I have thought about recruiting a big warlord, but the risk is too great."

"After all, the big warlords all have their own territories, weapons, munitions, funds, and armies. They have already grown strong enough and there is no need for them to join other forces."

"Moreover, these warlords are basically the big guys who suppress one side. How could they be willing to be inferior to others..."